Wall-protector for steam-coils



(No Model.)

B. B. MILLER.

WALL PROTECTOR FOR STEAM UOILS.

N0. 334,794. Patented Jan. 26, 1886.

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lUNlTED STATES PATENT Orrica ROBERT B. MILLER, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

WALL-PROTECTOR FOR STEAM-COILS.

EMFECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 334,794, dated January 26, 1886.

Application filed April 27, 1885.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, ROBERT B. MILLER, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, and a citizen of the United States, have invented a new and useful Iniprovenient in all-Protectors for Steam-Coils, of which the following is a full description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a front elevation showing the protector in position over asteam-eoil; Fig. 2, a front elevation of the protector; Fig. 3, a side elevation; Fig. 4, a cross-section; Fig. 5, a detail in cross-section showing a modification in the form of the trough or receptacle. Fig. 6 is a detail section showing a modified construction. Figs. 2, 3, 4., 5, and 6 are enlarged as compared with Fig. 1.

It is well known that in the use of steamcoils the wall at the rear of the coil becomes dirty and disfigured from the dust and dirt which accumulates thereon from the action of the coil, which tends to draw dust and dirt and throw it upward on the wall; and the ebject of this invention is to prevent this disfigurement of the wall, which object is accomplished by providing a covering iuclosing the rear, ends, and top of the coil, and having in its upper forward edge a receptacle or trough, into which the dust and other small particles raised by the heater are deposited and held, all as hereinafter more specifically described, and pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, A represents the rear wall of the protector, made of galvanized iron or other suitable material.

B represents the end walls, also made of galvanized iron, and, if desired, the rear and end walls can be stamped or formed from a single piece, or these parts can be otherwise attached.

O is a trough formed at the upper forward edge of the protector, either by turning the metal of the rear wall at right angles, as shown in Fig. 4, or circular, as shown in Fig. 5, or in some other suitable manner to leave an interior opening, a, with a space, g, lead ingthereinto between the under face of the top of the rear wall and the edge of the rearj's'ide of the Serial No. 163,674. (No model.)

trough O, and the ends of the trough O are closed by swinging doors or flaps b, to prevent the dust or other small particles from escaping from the end of the tube or receptacle. As shown, the upper portion of the rear wall is brought over on a curved line and the trough or tube formed therewith; but the tube might' be an independent piece suitably secured to the top of the wall, so as to leave an opening, a, at the inside or rear side of the tube, extending clear across the full length of the tube and protector, and when in position the upper end of the protector with the tube over hangs the radiator or heater.

In use the dust and other small particles drawn in and thrown up by the action of the radiator pass up on theiuterior face of the rear wall and around the top thereof on the interior, through the opening a into the interior opening, 0, of the trough G, where they are caught and held, and by thus providing the trough O the entire mass of dust and other small particles is carried into the interior, and there held from escaping and passing upward to deface and disfigure the wall.

lhe device is very simple, and can be applied to all forms of radiators, the size varying to suit the different-sized radiators with which the protector is to be used, and when the receptacle or trough O is filled on the interior the ends 12 can be swung around and a brush or other device passed through the tube or receptacle to remove the accumulated dust and other material.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A wall-protector consisting of the rear portion or wall, A, end walls, B, and trough or receptacle 0, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

2.,-The wall A, walls B, and trough O, with end doors, b, for forming a wall-protector over and around radiators, substantially as specified.

ROBERT E. MILLER.

Witnesses:

O. W. BOND, ALBERT H. ADAMS. 

